“ The cinema satisfies a primordial wish for pleasurable looking, but it also goes further, developing scopophilia in its narcissistic aspect. The conventions of mainstream film focus attention on the human form. Scale, space, stories are all anthropomorphic. Here, curiosity and the wish to look intermingle with a fascination with likeness and recognition: the human face, the human body, the relationship between the human form and its surroundings, the visible presence of the person in the world.” (Mulvey 435) this quote stood out to me because discuss how cinema and mainstream film applies where it positions its camera based on the male gaze. Because of the familiarity of human form and body, cinema explores what’s comfortable/relatable in terms of the patriarchy.
A movie that reminds me of this is Friday. Specifically the scene where the two main characters say an enlogated and exaggerated “damn” in reaction to the butt of a woman walking by. I’m not sure if the scene also features the butt but I can remember a few scenes from movies where the camera even follows.